know, everyone's speaking arabic, and i speak pidgin arabic from the time i've spent in the middle east. but i wasn't at first clear what was going on. and it wasn't until we started driving into this crowd and the people started surrounding our car and i realized that there was no way out of this area where they were bringing us, that something was wrong, and me and my, you know, teammates looked at each other and thought, this is not good. >> and how did you get out of that jam? >> well, you know, the situation started to escalate. and you know, things got very, very angry. there was a large banner, hosni mubarak banner hanging over this whole thing, which tells you that these are people who are upset about the media coverage, which is why they were so angry with us. but the situation started to get more and more tense. they became more and more angry at us. they became -- when they learned we were journalists, they started screaming. they were making gestures, putting their fingers, cutting their throats. there was a policeman, a man in a police uniform who said that